Interesting… I just found this. Speaks of 800 gbps, 1.2 tbps, 1.6 tbps Ethernet

-Aaron

From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of jdambrosia@gmail.com
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Subject: RE: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Love it Love it Love it

I have been telling people that the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group needs to start looking beyond 400 Gb/s Ethernet. It’s only a matter of time where we will need it!

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Tom Beecher
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:39 PM
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for capacity and speed.

I think it's spot on.

In years past it made more sense to distribute smaller , incremental patches. More work on the software side, but it was likely a better option than getting blasted on Twitter because "OMG I WANT TO PLAY AND MY DOWNLOAD IS TAKING 8 HOURS".

This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:57 AM Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:13:15 +0100, Bryan Holloway said:
>
>> Game releases are hardly a new thing, but these last two events seem to
>> be almost an order of magnitude higher than what we're used to (at least
>> on our predominantly eyeball network.)
>>
>> Any thoughts from the community? We're taking steps to accommodate, but
>> from a capacity-planning perspective, this seems non-linear to me.
>
> Be prepared for an entire new world of hurt this holiday season. Sony has already
> confirmed that PS5 releases will ship on 100Gbyte blu-ray disks. Which means that
> download sizes will be comparable…

There’s also the “we will stream you all the data things” I keep hearing about like the
Consoles without discs or some other thing I can’t remember the name of.

I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for capacity and speed.

- Jared